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Time Journey Homo Sapiens

70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens began achieving remarkable feats. Within 10,000 years, they spread from Africa across the entire world.

Editorial Wild beim Wild — 3 February 2023

The Journey Began 70,000 Years Ago

One day, approximately 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens began to accomplish extraordinary feats. At that time, several groups left the African continent.

If a group of hunter-gatherers split every forty years and the splinter group sought new territory a hundred kilometres further east, that was sufficient to cover the distance between East Africa and China within 10,000 years.

A Quantum Leap in Cognitive Abilities

Our closest living relatives are gorillas and orangutans. Closest of all, however, are chimpanzees. Only humans can speak of things that do not exist, writes Yuval Noah Harari in his book “A Brief History of Humankind”. More on the topic Wildlife and Biodiversity.

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